2 The Course This section first describes the Computer Organization course
developed and taught by the author. ... Computing occupies one-third of a
studenta#39;s effort in this year; the remainder is devoted to Math and to another
subject such ... The textbook for the course is the outstanding new book by
Patterson and Hennessy [1], although we do not cover chapters 5 and 6 (on CPU
design), and we mustanbsp;...